2 Kings 25:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The famine was getting worse and worse in the city. By the 9th day of the fourth month, there was no more food for the common people in the city.

Cross References

Ezekiel 14:21

Then the Lord GOD said, “So think how bad it will be for Jerusalem. I will send all four of those punishments against that city! I will send enemy soldiers, hunger, disease, and wild animals against that city. I will remove all the people and animals from that country.

Ezekiel 7:15

The enemy with his sword is outside the city. Disease and hunger is inside the city. If some people go out into the fields, enemy soldiers will kill them. If they stay in the city, hunger and disease will destroy them.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die inside the city from diseases and hunger. Another third will die in battle outside the city. And then I will pull out my sword and chase the last third of your people into faraway countries.

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, the hunger in the city was very bad. There was no food left for the people in the city to eat.

Jeremiah 38:2

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, hunger, or disease. But everyone who surrenders to the army of Babylon will live and escape with their lives.’

Leviticus 26:26

I will give you a share of the grain left in that city. But there will be very little food to eat. Ten women will be able to cook all their bread in one oven. They will measure each piece of bread. You will eat, but you will still be hungry.

Zechariah 8:19

The Lord All-Powerful says, “You have special days of sadness and fasting in the fourth month, the fifth month, the seventh month, and the tenth month. These days of sadness must be changed into days of happiness. They will be good and happy festivals. And you must love truth and peace.”

Ezekiel 5:10

People in Jerusalem will be so hungry that parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their own parents. I will punish you in many ways, and those who are left alive, I will scatter to the winds.”

Jeremiah 39:2

And on the ninth day of the fourth month in Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the wall of Jerusalem was broken through.

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse. And he ordered that Jeremiah should be given bread from the street bakers. He was given bread until there was no more bread in the city. So Jeremiah stayed under guard in the courtyard.

2 Kings 6:24

After this happened, King Ben-Hadad of Aram gathered all his army and went to surround and attack the city of Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25

The soldiers would not let people bring food into the city, so there was a time of terrible hunger in Samaria. It was so bad in Samaria that a donkey’s head was sold for 80 pieces of silver and one pint of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 25:2

His army stayed around Jerusalem until Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king of Judah.

Isaiah 3:1

Understand what I am telling you: The Lord GOD All-Powerful will take away everything Judah and Jerusalem depend on. He will take away all the food and water.

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will bring its army around the city. That army will not let people go out to get food, so the people in the city will begin to starve. They will become so hungry that they will eat the bodies of their own sons and daughters, and then they will begin to eat each other.’